University of Edinburgh research seminar in Scottish History

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:29:20 +0000

Date:

19 January 2012 - 19 April 2012

These seminars will take place at 5.15pm.

Organiser(s):

Dr Steve Boardman Steve.Boardman@ed.ac.uk

Department of History Film Season 2012 (University of Reading)

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:40:40 +0000

Date:

1 February 2012 - 7 March 2012

The past is a four-letter word…and it’s film

How do film-makers capture the past on the big screen? Is it possible to be historically accurate without pandering to market forces? These are just two of the questions posed by this inaugural season that will showcase genres ranging from classical theatre to opera, documentary and modern cinema. These four films will be introduced and discussed by historians from the Department of History.

Organiser(s):

Dr Emma Vickers

Authorship, memory & manuscripts, 2012: Modern Papers at the Bodleian Libraries

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 10:00:45 +0000

Date:

24 January 2012

Date:

6 February 2012

Date:

13 February 2012

Date:

20 February 2012

Date:

27 February 2012 - 27 March 2012

2012 Modern Papers Seminar Series: Authorship, memory & manuscripts

Four seminars exploring the writing of political biographies. Each speaker will introduce a document from the Bodleian’s modern political manuscript collections. The subjects are Clement Attlee; Roy Jenkins; Douglas Jay; and 60 years of political interviews by David Butler.

Speakers are Lord (Peter) Hennessy; John Campbell; Mary, Lady Jay; Sir David Butler, and Professor Dennis Kavanagh.

Organiser(s):

Bodleian Libraries, Helen Langley

Political History Network Seminar (University of Reading)

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 17:25:53 +0000

Date:

15 February 2012

The Political History Network is a seminar group organised for postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers working in modern political history. The network provides a forum to present papers, share ideas and network. For more information and to register for email updates please visit our website.

Our next seminar will take place at the University of Reading on Wednesday 15th February 2012 and will feature the following papers:

'The party's over: Political responses to fascism in the 1930s' Dr Coleen Weedon, University of Reading

Organiser(s):

Jason Parry (University of Reading)

CFP: Political History Network 2012 Seminar Series

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:03:22 +0000

Date:

15 February 2012 - 30 April 2012

The Political History Network provides an informal forum for modern political historians to present papers, discuss ideas and network. We particularly welcome postgraduate and post-doctorate students working in 19th and 20th century political history, but anyone with an interest in political history is very welcome to take part in our events. Our regular events consist of termly symposiums which feature three or four papers from postgraduate or post-doctorate students working in political history on a variety of themes.

Organiser(s):

Political History Network

Crisis: Interruptions, Reactions and Continuities in Central and Eastern Europe. The 11th International Postgraduate Conference on Central and Eastern Europe

Wed, 11 May 2011 11:09:43 +0000

Date:

15 February 2012 - 17 February 2012

Crises have been common in the history of Central and Eastern Europe. The term crisis implies that a particular order, whether financial, social or political is thrown into a state of flux. The resultant instability usually forces those affected to react to the disturbance and reassert a sense of equilibrium. By unravelling the operation of social and political mechanisms that are normally taken for granted, crises give rise to a number of questions: Were crises preceded by a generally accepted order? How did individuals confronted with a crisis react to the new state of affairs?

Authorship, memory & manuscripts, 2012: Modern Papers at the Bodleian Libraries

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 10:00:45 +0000

Date:

24 January 2012

Date:

6 February 2012

Date:

13 February 2012

Date:

20 February 2012

Date:

27 February 2012 - 27 March 2012

2012 Modern Papers Seminar Series: Authorship, memory & manuscripts

Speakers are Lord (Peter) Hennessy; John Campbell; Mary, Lady Jay; Sir David Butler, and Professor Dennis Kavanagh.

Organiser(s):

Bodleian Libraries, Helen Langley

Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic 2012: Junctions and Crossroads

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:45:43 +0000

Date:

25 February 2012

The Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the University of Cambridge is pleased to announce the date for its annual interdisciplinary postgraduate conference, the theme of which is: "Junctions and Crossroads". The Colloquium this year will take place on the 25th of February, 2012.

We are delighted to announce that this year's keynote speaker will be Dr. Barbara Crawford, OBE, Honorary Reader at the University of St Andrews. Dr. Crawford will be speaking on ‘The Joint Earldoms of Caithness and Orkney’.

Organiser(s):

CCASNC Committee 2012, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge

Digital Humanities Symposium: Virtualisation and Heritage

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:06:36 +0000

Date:

25 February 2012

We are very pleased to announce that The University of York, UK, will be hosting the event Digital Humanities Symposium: Virtualisation and Heritage on the 25th of February 2012. This event seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners in the digital humanities who focus on different aspects of heritage. We are interested in paper presentations, posters and workshop proposals. The topics may include, but are not limited to:

Organiser(s):

Mariana Lopez, Oliver Jones and Gavin Kearney

Authorship, memory & manuscripts, 2012: Modern Papers at the Bodleian Libraries

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 10:00:45 +0000

Date:

24 January 2012

Date:

6 February 2012

Date:

13 February 2012

Date:

20 February 2012

Date:

27 February 2012 - 27 March 2012

2012 Modern Papers Seminar Series: Authorship, memory & manuscripts

Speakers are Lord (Peter) Hennessy; John Campbell; Mary, Lady Jay; Sir David Butler, and Professor Dennis Kavanagh.

Organiser(s):

Bodleian Libraries, Helen Langley

Bentham Seminar series 2012

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:23:06 +0000

Date:

29 February 2012

Date:

7 March 2012

Date:

14 March 2012

Date:

21 March 2012

Date:

13 June 2012

This year's Bentham Seminar series, organised by UCL's Bentham Project, have been confirmed. All of the seminars will be held between 11am and 1pm in the Committee Room in the School of Public Policy at UCL (Rubin Building, 29/30 Tavistock Square). For further information, please contact Phil Baker (philip.baker@ucl.ac.uk). All are welcome!

All welcome!

29 February 2012

Organiser(s):

UCL Bentham Project

The past in today’s politics: a debate on the state of history-writing as a political act

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 18:26:54 +0000

Date:

5 March 2012

Is there a place for politics in academic historical research?

Organiser(s):

Clare Makepeace, Victoria Powell on behalf of the Raphael Samuel History Centre and the British Library

Goldsmiths History Seminar 2011/12

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:09:52 +0000

Date:

15 January 2012

Date:

7 March 2012

Date:

14 March 2012

Goldsmiths History Seminar programme (and related events), 2011/12

Time: Wednesdays, 5:30-7:00pm (unless otherwise stated)

Venue: Room 143, Richard Hoggart Building (unless otherwise stated)

All events are free and open to public. No registration required. For additional information, please contact the seminar convener Dr Dejan Djokic (d.djokic@gold.ac.uk).

Spring term

15 January
Anastasia Stouraiti (Goldsmiths), 'Marvels of the Levant: Wonder and Empire in Early Modern Venice'

7 March

Bentham Seminar series 2012

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:23:06 +0000

Date:

29 February 2012

Date:

7 March 2012

Date:

14 March 2012

Date:

21 March 2012

Date:

13 June 2012

All welcome!

29 February 2012

Organiser(s):

UCL Bentham Project

New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies 2012

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 08:02:52 +0000

Date:

8 March 2012 - 10 March 2012

Organiser(s):

Dr Nova Myhill and Dr Carrie Benes

Gendering the history of charity and voluntary effort: A workshop for postgraduate and early-career researchers

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:41:58 +0000

Date:

9 March 2012

From medieval and early modern elite understandings of charitable virtue to industrial cultures of mutual aid or contemporary understandings of community engagement, gender has been critically implicated in the history of voluntary action whether through the lens of experience, performance or social systems.

Organiser(s):

Tosh Warwick and Eve Colpus

Bentham Seminar series 2012

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:23:06 +0000

Date:

29 February 2012

Date:

7 March 2012

Date:

14 March 2012

Date:

21 March 2012

Date:

13 June 2012

All welcome!

29 February 2012

Organiser(s):

UCL Bentham Project

History of Women in the Americas

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:53:17 +0000

Date:

14 March 2012

The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW, formerly known as British Historians of Women in the Americas) will hold their fifth annual conference on Wednesday 14 March 2012 at Brunel University, west London.

Organiser(s):

Rachel Ritchie

Goldsmiths History Seminar 2011/12

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:09:52 +0000

Date:

15 January 2012

Date:

7 March 2012

Date:

14 March 2012

"Oikonomia, Economy and War", Fifth Cambridge Graduate Conference in Political Thought and Intellectual History

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:02:02 +0000

Date:

19 March 2012 - 20 March 2012

Paper proposals are invited for the fifth Cambridge Graduate Conference in Political Thought and Intellectual History, to be held on 19-20 March 2012 at the University of Cambridge. The theme of the 2012 conference will be “Oikonomia, Economy and War”, and papers dealing with any period and tradition in the history of political thought from antiquity to the present will be considered. Papers which bring an historical perspective to bear on problems of contemporary political theory are welcome.

Organiser(s):

Jared Holley, Dom O'Mahony, Paul Sagar, Tara-Jane Westover, Waseem Yaqoob

Bentham Seminar series 2012

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:23:06 +0000

Date:

29 February 2012

Date:

7 March 2012

Date:

14 March 2012

Date:

21 March 2012

Date:

13 June 2012

All welcome!

29 February 2012

Organiser(s):

UCL Bentham Project

On the margins? Rethinking the problem and place of 'outsiders', 1400-1800

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:19:51 +0000

Date:

23 March 2012 - 24 March 2012

This event is designed to challenge and rethink existing ideas about the ‘social margins’. It is not all-encompassing in terms of the 'outsider' groups considered. Instead, it is structured around key themes: health, family life, the law and work. The papers presented will consider seemingly very different groups, in the context of early modern Britain, Europe and the Atlantic World. The hope is that over the course of the two days we will be able to identify similarities in perception and treatment between these groups. There are two basic questions which all

Organiser(s):

Dr Jane Stevens Crawshaw

Gender and Irish Society in the 19th and 20th century: new perspectives and new ideas

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:36:40 +0000

Date:

23 March 2012 - 24 March 2012

Two-day conference – 23rd and 24th of March, 2012

Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences

National University of Ireland, Galway

Funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS)

Organiser(s):

Dr Laura Kelly

Solidarities that know no boundaries? Transnational Advocacy in Historical Perspective

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 19:59:39 +0000

Date:

30 March 2012 - 31 March 2012

What inspires activists to embrace causes that do not directly affect them? What drives professions of solidarity for an individual, community or nation? This conference will explore the ways in which activists have embraced the causes of groups of which their knowledge and experience was often limited. In recent years, online media have allowed activists involved in protests instant access to an international audience – at the same time raising questions about the utility and depth of this potential support base.

Organiser(s):

Dr Daniel Laqua, Dr. Charlotte Alston

Deviance in Modern Irish History Workshop

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:54:20 +0000

Date:

31 March 2012

The study of deviance illuminates a ‘hidden’ history of human behaviour. Definitions of deviance and attitudes about what was the ‘norm’ reveal much about society and the conduct of people, both individually and collectively. The voice of the ‘deviant’ is often absent from surviving sources and by extension from the historiography. In other instances, the voice of the ‘deviant’ is mediated through official records or constructed by those in positions of power.

Organiser(s):

Dr. Elaine Farrell and Dr. Conor Reidy

Migration, Ethnicity and Identity: Perspectives from the Celtic Nations

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:14:38 +0000

Date:

2 April 2012 - 3 April 2012

Organiser(s):

Bangor University

The Royal Body

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:30:36 +0000

Date:

2 April 2012 - 4 April 2012

The idea of the king’s two bodies, the body natural and the body politic, founded on the distinction between the personal and mortal king and the perpetual and corporate crown, has long been of interest to scholars of medieval and early modern kingship. In later centuries the natural body of the monarch remained a contested site, with the life, health, sexuality, fertility and death of the king or queen continuing to be an important part of politics.

Organiser(s):

Dr Anna Whitelock

The Many Headed Hydra: Plebeians in the World c.1660-1820

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:47:19 +0000

Date:

12 April 2012

This conference explores the role of plebeians in the colonial and commercial expansion across the world from c.1660-1820. Inspired by the themes of Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker’s The Many Headed Hydra (2000) the papers will explore the book’s central themes in the light of new research, as well as taking it into new areas. The role of seas and ships, armies and navies, and commercial interests in creating and regulating a mobile, multi-ethnic workforce will be explored.

Organiser(s):

William Farrell (Birkbeck) & Stephen Duane Dean Jnr (KCL)

The Third Home Rule Crisis: Centenary Perspectives

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:47:16 +0000

Date:

13 April 2012

The Irish revolution, the label given to the years of severe political strife, violence, and change in Ireland between 1912 and 1921, is approaching its centenary. The revolution that resulted in the shattering of the Anglo-Irish Union and the creation of an independent Ireland has its immediate origins in the constitutional crisis prompted by the introduction of the third Home Rule Bill in April 1912, a genuine watershed moment in the history of the United Kingdom.

Organiser(s):

Colin Reid and James McConnel

Aberystwyth’s Fifth Annual Postgraduate Historical Studies Conference: ‘Ritual, Symbolism, and Identity.’

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:10:59 +0000

Date:

13 April 2012 - 15 April 2012

This years’ conference theme is ‘Ritual, Symbolism, and Identity’: a theme that we hope will generate a wide scope of interest. The conference provides an ideal friendly environment for students to present work in progress, and includes a number of guest speakers attached to Aberystwyth University, who in the past have shared their knowledge and experience of such things as interdisciplinary work, collaborations between universities and other research institutions, successful applications and interview techniques for academic posts, and guidance on how to get your work published.

Organiser(s):

Lowri Jones & Kris Lovell